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Russian officials deleted a draft decree, on Wednesday, that would’ve shifted the borders of the Baltic Sea after several NATO member states condemned the apparent expansion of Russia’s maritime territory. Had the Russians moved forward with the drafted boundaries, they would have encroached on territories belonging to Finland and Lithuania. The Russian Defense Ministry initially drafted the decree, according to the Kyiv Independent. The draft argued that existing maritime borders, established while the USSR was disintegrating in the 1980s, “do not fully correspond to the current geographic si…

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